webread not returning full html contents
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The following call to read a webpage
URL='https://courses.yale.edu/?keyword=energy&srcdb=202203';
data=webread(URL);
does not return the full contents of the html file of the webpage, in the following sense:
If I enter the URL as above in my browser and view the source code of the page, the contents are different from what is returned by webread.
I've tried using various forms of webread (and webwrite) with different weboptions, but every call returns the same limited html content, which is the same as the base html content of
'https://courses.yale.edu'
without the results of the search on the page, with the given query parameters.
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Michael Oristaglio
on 29 Jun 2022
Answers (1)
DGM
on 29 Jun 2022
0 votes
Webread() just reads the page. It doesn't execute all the tons of scripts that are used to build the DOM.
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